{"id":28537,"date":"2012-01-31T08:49:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28537"},"modified":"2012-01-31T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:09:25","slug":"another-poser-gun-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28537","title":{"rendered":"Another poser gun dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why these guys think what they&#8217;ve done isn&#8217;t good enough to sell firearms. This one came to us from a reader of Blackfive who sent the story of a guy he met at a gun show;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was decked out in multicam, with an &#8220;infidel&#8221; and &#8220;sniper&#8221; tab, he also had a SEAL gold Trident pin on his tactical ball cap, his booth besides selling firearms offered tactical firearms training, and sniper training. &#8230;he claims &#8220;many years in special operations&#8221; but offers no unit or service records and only one grainy pic with no name tap or unit patches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we find out the guy&#8217;s name is Darrel Tracht, and here&#8217;s his &#8220;about&#8221; page on his website;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracchts-Hunting-and-Firearm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-28538\" title=\"Traccht's Hunting and Firearm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracchts-Hunting-and-Firearm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many years in Special Operations, yup. We also found this picture of him;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/217227_10Darrell-Tracht.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28539\" title=\"217227_10Darrell Tracht\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/217227_10Darrell-Tracht.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/217227_10Darrell-Tracht.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/217227_10Darrell-Tracht-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><\/center>Now a SEAL Trident between an Army CIB and jump wings would probably set off bells with anyone with more than a minute on active duty. I know what he&#8217;s going to say when he gets confronted &#8220;I&#8217;m only wearing the Trident&#8221; to honor SEALs &#8211; well, that&#8217;s pretty hollow when he earned jump wings and a CIB. Here&#8217;s his FOIA;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-FOIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-28540\" title=\"Tracht FOIA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-FOIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-FOIA.jpg 651w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-FOIA-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His actual awards;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-awards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-awards.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tracht awards\" width=\"431\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-awards.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-awards-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Nothing there to be ashamed of. His assignments to &#8220;special operations&#8221; units;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-assingments.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-assingments.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tracht assingments\" width=\"400\" height=\"673\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-assingments.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracht-assingments-178x300.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see anything to be ashamed of in those records, so I have no idea why Tracht felt the need to embellish and wear stuff that didn&#8217;t earn. That&#8217;s not the kind of stuff that inspires customers&#8217; confidence in a businessman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why these guys think what they&#8217;ve done isn&#8217;t good enough to sell firearms. &hellip; <a title=\"Another poser gun dealer\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28537\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another poser gun dealer<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}